vortex

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panopticaticon (firstdogonthemoon.com.au)
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An engaging critique and on-going work concerning the inability of open source communities to deal with the consequences of its use beyond the blinkered mantra that 'what we call #FOSS today was originally for hackers by hackers'. Free software usage has been systemically captured well beyond that scope and appropriated by existing and aspiring large corporations, with resultant human and social consequences largely ignored. And this is just the beginning ...

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"Google couldn't verify your identity" is probably the nicest thing that a corporation has ever said to me.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by vortex@fed.dyne.org to c/planetdyne@fed.dyne.org
 

How monopolies are destroying blogs, podcasts, and webcomics.

Illustrating the history of RSS.